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November 16, 2005

Take your stinking paws off my Internet, you damned dirty UN!

With all due apologies to Charlton Heston and the rest of the crew from the Planet of the Apes.

Even when it's the good old USA against every other country on the planet, WE WIN!

A U.N. working group, followed by governments including China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and the 25-member European Union, had all proposed taking away control of the domain name "root zone file" from the United States and handing it off to a multinational agency.

I wonder if the EU is upset about being lumped in with Cuba, China and Saudi Arabia, or is it the other way around?


posted by Tanker at 10:34 PM
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The day the UN takes over the internet will be the last day of free speach in the internet.

Posted by: Tom on November 16, 2005 10:45 PM

Hey Ace,

You looking forward to rolling Robusto's in an Havana sweatshop for all the "not EU approved" swill you been slingin'?

Well you'd better be...you'd better be.

Posted by: sentinel on November 16, 2005 10:51 PM

Notice two of the countrys are big time communist dictatorships run by tyrants who keep their people living in ditches and eating rats and their still honorrary member on the UN why should we have anything more to do with the wretched UN? lets just kick the whole damn UN out of the country and move it to bejing

Posted by: spurwing plover on November 16, 2005 10:55 PM

I may be drunk, but why not just move the Interweb servers to Antatica, Anterartica, Acrtica ... that cold place where they filmed "The Thing" ... and have the internet managed by the Science Guys there.

~ hic ~

Posted by: BumperStickerist on November 16, 2005 11:04 PM

They can have my root zone file when they pry it from my cold dead hard drive!

Posted by: BrewFan on November 16, 2005 11:08 PM

We invented and nurtured it.

You dictators and EU weenies now want to control it. Really, that's some gall.

Bite me, losers! (And that's the cleaned up version)

Bwaaahaahaa.

Posted by: Lipstick on November 16, 2005 11:18 PM

As always for dictators, the trouble with freedom is, people use it.

What pathetic assholes.

Posted by: lauraw on November 17, 2005 12:32 AM

I agree with Tom, the end of free speach in more ways than one.

How long do you think it would take for them to impose all sorts of new UN taxes and fees.

Posted by: robert on November 17, 2005 12:50 AM

Internet creator Al Gore was disappointed by the news, saying, "Once again, America has bullied the International Community. If only Florida 2000 had gone my way..."

Posted by: zetetic on November 17, 2005 08:26 AM

We really, really dodged a bullet here. Had the root A servers gone under the control of the UN, we would be looking at the fracturization of the DNS system in 5 years. US companies will not be rooked for their domain names, and Cisco (or Microsoft, or Google) would offer an alternative.

Also, IPv6 would NEVER get rolled out, or it would get rolled out way, way too soon at the behest of China and Korea.

Posted by: rho on November 17, 2005 09:01 AM

I've often wondered what the geeks would do faced with this sort of threat. You know, the hardline guys who actually built and run the whole internet thing. Bureaucrats, of course, have not the slightest idea how the big machine works, and think they can just push a few buttons and control it. The guys that man the levers tilt overwhelmingly libertarian. If not downright anarcho-dorkian.

China's doing a surprisingly good job of letting it in but keeping a lid on it. So far. But I don't think the UN has any notion how big, wierd and complicated trying to put a saddle on this thing would be.

And that was today's episode of Mixing Your Metaphors. Thenk yew.

Posted by: S. Weasel on November 17, 2005 09:14 AM

I don't know what you're problem is, guys. All the UN would use it for is to spread democracy and free speech to the rest of the world.

...

...

Yeah, I couldn't keep a straight face either when I typed that.

Posted by: Xoxotl on November 17, 2005 05:23 PM
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